Defect in content update leads to massive worldwide tech outage
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Published 2024-07-19
Escalating disruptions continued hours after the technology company said it was gradually fixing an issue affecting access to Microsoft 365 apps and services.
The website DownDetector, which tracks user-reported internet outages, recorded growing outages in services at Visa, ADT security and Amazon, and airlines including American Airlines and Delta.
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All Comments (21)
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Do we understand why one company controlling everything is a bad thing yet?
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I woke up at 1am to this as an IT professional for local government. The issue was with a crowdstrike deployment. Crowdstrike is security and antivirus protection so it is pretty ironic that they caused an issue as bad or worse than what they are supposed to protect from
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Imagine happening with digital currency scheme. Can't even get a cup of coffee. If it's down, you're down.
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I work in a standalone emergency department in West Baltimore. The computer crashed as sick patients were coming in. Caused huge delays in patient care and was frankly dangerous
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All the on call IT employees called out overnight. Delightful.
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nothing like having a single point of failure in our technology
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Our whole facility at UPS on the nightshift had a catastrophic failure because of this.
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Been delayed for 10 hours with no signs of when a flight will leave. No refund opportunities nothing Just a Oh well. Ruined vacation
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Sooooo why do we rely so heavily on technology these days? why does everything need to be constantly online and connected??? this was an accident and caused this much of a goddamn headache. Imagine if someone was ACTUALLY responsible for it....
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How does the world’s foremost computer system designer consistently mess up important stuff like this? We have become so dependent on the internet that someone’s little mistake ends up screwing over everyone
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I grew up in a generation where computers were just becoming common and people were expected to all become tech experts in the future. Now a few decades have passed and society is more ignorant of technology than it ever had been since the invention of the computer.
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Did they blame Russia already?
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Isn’t Bill Gates involved in the pharmaceutical industry as well? That’s comforting
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Is Costco affected by this? I don’t wanna go to work 😭
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CrowdStrike is causing this, not Microsoft..
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Thank goodness I've got lots of toilet paper left over from covid
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Not just Xbox Live, but everything. Good job, Microsoft.
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if this was caused by a hack, don't expect anyone to inform the public.
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July has been one heck of a month!!
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1:03 That man’s suit is looking fresh.
